For that reason, Theophilus, and because I have investigated it all carefully from the beginning, I have determined to write a connected account of it for Your Excellency,

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He will drink no wine or strong drink, but he will be filled with the holy Spirit from his very birth,

For he has noticed his slave in her humble station, For from this time all the ages will think me favored!

"By the lips of his holy prophets he promised of old to do this??71 To save us from our enemies and from the hands of all who hate us,

That we should be delivered from the hands of our enemies,

"Because the heart of our God is merciful, And so the day will dawn upon us from on high,

And Joseph went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he belonged to the house and family of David,

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, a message from God came to Zechariah's son John in the desert.

So he would say to the crowds that came out there to be baptized by him, "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to fly from the wrath that is coming?

and the holy Spirit came down upon him in the material shape of a dove, and there came a voice from heaven, "You are my Son, my Beloved! You are my Chosen!"

Jesus returned from the Jordan full of the holy Spirit, and he was led about in the desert

And he took him to Jerusalem, and made him stand on the summit of the Temple, and said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down from here,

And they all spoke well of him and were astonished at the winning words that fell from his lips, and they said, "Is he not Joseph's son?"

and they got up and drove him out of the town and took him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, intending to throw him down from it.

When it was day, he left the house and made his way to a lonely spot, and crowds of people went in search of him, and overtook him and tried to keep him from leaving them.

And he got into one of the boats, which belonged to Simon, and asked him to push out a little from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds of people from the boat.

and so were Zebedee's sons, James and John, who were Simon's partners. Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid. From now on you are to catch men!"

One day as he was teaching, there were some Pharisees and experts in the Law sitting near by, who had come from every village in Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was there, so that he might cure people.

But other days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, in those days they will fast."

He used this figure also in speaking to them: "No one tears a piece from a new coat and sews it on an old one, or if he does, he will both tear the new one and the piece from the new one will not match the old one.

And he came down with them and took his stand on a level place with a great throng of his disciples, and a large number of people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and the seacoast district of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to be cured of their diseases.

And all the people tried to touch him, because power went forth from him and cured them all.

To the man that strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from the man who takes away your coat, do not keep back your shirt either.

And if you lend only to people from whom you expect to get something, what merit is there in that? Even godless people lend to godless people, meaning to get it back again in full.

Every tree is known by its fruit. They do not pick figs off thorns, or gather grapes from brambles.

So Jesus went with them. But when he was not far from the house, the captain sent some friends to him, to say to him, "Master, do not take any more trouble, for I am not a suitable person to have you under my roof.

And all the people, even the tax-collectors, when they heard him, acknowledged the justice of God's demands, by accepting baptism from John,

You did not give me a kiss, but from the moment I came in she has not stopped kissing my feet.

When a great throng was gathering and people were coming to him from one town after another, he said in his figurative way,

The ones by the path are those who hear, and then the devil comes and carries off the message from their hearts, so that they may not believe it and be saved.

So take care how you listen. For people who have will have more given to them, and from people who have nothing, even what they think they have will be taken away."

They made a landing in the neighborhood of Gerasa, which is just across the lake from Galilee.

Then all the people of the neighborhood of Gerasa asked him to go away from them, for they were terribly frightened. And he got into a boat and went back.

But Jesus said, "Somebody touched me, for I know that power passed from me."

Even as he spoke someone came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the Master any more."

Whatever house you go to stay in, remain there, and start on again from it.

And where they will not welcome you, leave that town and shake off the very dust from your feet as a protest against them."

And they set forth and went from village to village, telling the good news and curing people everywhere.

Herod the governor heard of all that was happening, and he was perplexed because some people said that John had risen from the dead,

Just as they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, how good it is that we are here! Let us put up three huts, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah!" For he did not know what he was saying.

And from the cloud came a voice that said, "This is my Son, my Chosen! Listen to him!"

The next day, when they had come down from the mountain, it happened that a great crowd met him.

But they did not understand what he meant, indeed it was concealed from them, in order that they might not comprehend it, and they were afraid to ask him what he meant.

When the disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Master, will you have us order fire to come down from heaven and consume them?"

Stay at the same house, eating and drinking what they offer you, for the workman deserves his pay. Do not change from one house to another.

He said to them, "I saw Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning!

At that moment he was inspired with joy, and said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the learned and intelligent, and revealing it to children! Yes, I thank you, Father, for choosing to have it so!

Jesus replied, "A man was on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers, and they stripped him and beat him and went off leaving him half dead.

indeed there is only one thing we need. For Mary has chosen the right thing, and it must not be taken away from her."

and he answers from inside, 'Do not bother me; the door is now fastened, and my children and I have gone to bed; I cannot get up and give you any.'

Others to test him asked him for a sign from heaven.

The queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation at the Judgment and will condemn them, for she came from the very ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and there is more than Solomon here!

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you! This age will be charged with it all!

For what you say in the darkness will be heard in the light, and what you whisper in someone's ear, behind closed doors, will be proclaimed from the housetops.

like men waiting for their master to come home from a wedding, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

But one who does wrong without knowing them will be lightly punished. From anyone who has been given much, much will be required, and of the man to whom people have intrusted much, they will demand even more.

For from now on if there are five people in a house they will be divided three against two and two against three.

When Jesus saw her he called to her, "You are freed from your sickness!"

But the Master answered, "You hypocrites! Does not every one of you untie his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath and lead him away to water him?

And did not this woman, who is a descendant of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen years, have to be released from those bonds on the Sabbath day?"

when the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock on the door, and say, 'Open it for us, sir!' Then he will answer you and say, 'I do not know where you come from,'

And he will say to you, 'I do not know where you come from. Get away from me, all you wrongdoers!'

People will come from the east and west and the north and south, and take their places in the Kingdom of God.

Just then some Pharisees came up and said to him, "Go! Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you!"

Then the manager said to himself, 'What am I going to do, because my master is going to take my position away from me? I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.

I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from my position people will take me into their homes.'

Until John came, it was the Law and the Prophets. From that time the Kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone has been crowding into it.

Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and whoever marries a woman who has been divorced from her husband commits adultery.

and eager to satisfy his hunger with what was thrown away from the rich man's table. Why, the very dogs came and licked his sores.

Besides there is a great chasm set between you and us, so that those who want to go over from this side to you cannot, and they cannot cross from your side to us.'

But he said, 'No! Father Abraham, but if someone will go to them from the dead, they will repent!'

He answered, 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead!' "

"What man among you, if he has a servant ploughing or keeping sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come at once and sit down at the table,'

And as he was going into one village he met ten lepers, and they stood at some distance from him,

for just as when the lightning flashes, it shines from one end of the sky to the other, that will be the way with the Son of Man.

but the day Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

There was a widow in the city and she came to him and said, 'Protect me from my opponent.'

And he said to the bystanders, 'Take the twenty dollars away from him, and give it to the man who has the two hundred!'

They said to him, 'He has two hundred, sir!'??26 'I tell you, the man who has will have more given him, and from the man who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away!

and said, "If you yourself only knew today the conditions of peace! But as it is, they are hidden from you.

Tell me, did John's baptism come from heaven or from men?"

And they argued with one another, and said, "If we say 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why did you not believe him?'

But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet."

So they answered that they did not know where it came from.

but those who are thought worthy to attain that other world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are married.

For they all gave from what they had to spare, but she in her want has put in all she had to live on."

And he withdrew about a stone's throw from them, and kneeling down he prayed

and said, "Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. But not my will but yours be done!"

When he got up from his prayer, he went to the disciples and found them asleep from sorrow.

But from this time on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of God Almighty!"

Then they said, "What do we want of testimony now? We have heard it ourselves from his own mouth!"

As they led Jesus away, they seized a man named Simon, from Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and put the cross on his back, for him to carry behind Jesus.

And all his acquaintances and the women who had come with him from Galilee, stood at a distance looking on.

who had not voted for the plan or action of the council. He came from the Jewish town of Arimathea and lived in expectation of the Kingdom of God.

Then he took it down from the cross and wrapped it in linen and laid it in a tomb hewn in the rock, where no one had yet been laid.

The women who had followed Jesus from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was put there.

But they found the stone rolled back from the tomb,

and they went back from the tomb and told all this to the eleven and all the rest.

That same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem,

but they were prevented from recognizing him.